A/N Sorry for the wait, I have passed the past days with my girlfriend and I tend to not write much when I'm with her ^^''
Anyway, I'm going to update both this story and Turn Back Time as well as answering my pm's today so I hope to know your opinions about both fics. Also if you all like AUs I'm starting a new fic called Memories of Wonder (To the Spanish readers there is also on Spanish under the name of Memorias de Wonder) so feel free to read it!
Ah! I'm searching for a cover for my story "Coffee Black News" so if you feel interested feel also free to contact me!
Enough of me, I hope you all like this chapter!
The truth
Storybrooke: Present
David barely caught a glimpse of a very enraged Emma before the blonde woman started running, the parked car forgotten by the young woman as she marched towards what David suspected was the dinner.
"Emma" He called; already trying to reach her but his daughter was faster that he had suspected "You don't know if you can trust Gold" David screamed at the top of his lungs as he started running as well, his voice breaking a little at the end as Emma suddenly stopped and turned, her emerald gaze dark with fury and a glimpse of worry.
"I know he was" Emma replied, her fists so tightly closed that her knuckles were turning white "I know that, Kil… Hook's signature was there, the terms of the contract were clear, Gold wasn't lying"
"Emma…" David repeated as he walked closer to the shorter woman, his eyes inspecting Emma's as he raised his right hand, trying to touch the blonde's cheek.
"If that contract was signed by Regina you would believe Gold" Continued Emma, her voice barely wavering for a second "And you know it"
David nodded sadly because he knew that it was true, the contract was clear and the terms of it were also readable, Hook had traded the book with a passage to Storybrooke, without Regina. The paper didn't say anything about Regina's state but as far as he had understood Rumple's words the woman must have survived the strange magic fire that Emma had seen.
"You said once" The man finally talked, trying to voice his words as soft as possible "That even if you knew that Regina had done terrible things here she was just Regina"
Emma's jaw closed so strongly that even David could hear the sound of it and licked his lower lips as a response.
"I can only see a pirate, and if I would have asked him sooner when I first saw him in the past what I could sense that it was off maybe Regina would have been here when we traveled"
And with that Emma turned and resumed her running, leaving David behind.
Enchanted Forest: Past
Regina huffed as the book remained silent, Rumplestiskin's laughter echoing the walls of the castle as the man watched the brunette's failure once again.
"What I'm doing wrong, you Imp?" Growled the woman as two fireballs spurted from her hands. Her dark eyes glowed with the magical fire and even the man before her gulped visibly at that.
"You have the lock but you don't have the key" Chanted the dark one in reply, making the brunette growl once again as that have been the reply the other hundreds of times that she had tried to open the book.
After her discovery of Rumple's book the man had decided to help her with her travel back home. Even if Regina was aware that the man only wanted to help her in order of fulfilling his desire of taking revenge over the pirate she was willing to listening to him.
But the book didn't open and therefore her ticket to traveling back home was inexistent.
"And what key is that?" She screamed at the coward man, turning back to the closed book. Her hands grabbed the cover and tried to open it but it didn't move.
"The same key that you used to travel here, dearie" Rumplestiskin informed her once again, his final giggle making Regina bite her lips until she tasted blood.
"It was ink what we used and I can't use the ink if the book is closed, you idiot" Regina replied as she directed her gaze to the flask of ink that seemed to glow mockingly at her.
"Maybe it wasn't the ink" Muttered the dark one "Maybe it was something else"
The brunette woman sighed and directed her attention to the flask, trying to think of a spell that could help her. She had already tried everything she could think off but she still needed to find a solution.
Blinking, her tired brain repeated the strange words that the dark one kept repeating at her back "Maybe it was something else"
What that could be? She had used the ink, they had used it numerous times as they traveled over her past, the ink was the key, there wasn't anything else.
But even if she dismissed that ridiculous though that Rumple kept repeating over and over again her brain kept chanting the words, her thoughts already going back to the moment in which Emma and her had traveled the first time.
The open book, the open flask, Merlin's ink, Emma's words, the void, the Enchanted Forest…
Regina's eyes swirled with purple as the memory came to her once again, it hadn't be that, yes, the ink had been there, they had used it. But the ink wasn't the key; it wasn't the key to the book, or to what she wanted to do.
The ink had been merely a channel to do it. It had been what always seemed to create a magical ripple: Emma's touch.
Storybrooke: Present
Emma's fingers protested when the woman punched Hook's nose, but the piercing scream that filled the air of the dinner was enough to make it worth it.
For a second everybody stilled, looking at the young woman with open and confused eyes as Emma looked at the now whimpering man before her, even Henry, who was now drinking at Snow's side, was looking at the scene with a furrowed expression.
"You lied" Emma said, her voice harsh and cold as David finally arrived at the place with a somber expression that didn't quench everybody confusion.
"Emma?" Snow asked, carefully moving to her daughter's side as Emma kept staring at Hook, her piercing eyes never wavering as the pirate's kept filling with tears because of the pain.
"Let her talk" Muttered David as he finally approached the group, his eyes glancing at the rest of the citizens that were looking both at Emma and Hook's figures. "Emma and I have discovered that what she is saying is true, Hook lied, Regina is alive"
"And he was the one who tried to make everything disappear" Emma added with rage, her voice barely covering Henry's gasp as the rest of the people inside the place started talking. "Wasn't it, Hook?"
The pirate coughed and tried to smile, the pain making him grimace instead of achieving her usual smirk.
"I love you, how can you say that?"
Emma growled and her eyes flashed with anger and blue magic, making the pirate lick nervously his lips.
"Gold has the contract that you signed, you lied and you tried to kill Regina. Tell me, Hook, that I'm a liar and I will punch you again"
Hook's eyes darkened considerably as he moved forward, trying to reach Emma with his good hand.
"Rumplestiskin wouldn't ever have helped us if we didn't give him what he wanted"
"That wasn't Regina!" Screamed Emma as she launched at Hook, only being stopped by her father when she was about to hit Hook again "And you know it Hook, try to tell me the truth for once because Henry is now without his mother only because of you"
The teenager only nodded when everybody, Granny and Ruby included, looked at him, his eyes locked with Hook's figure.
The pirate didn't speak but when he was the one that tried to attack Emma the woman was prepared to block the attack, her years as a bail bonded person kicking in just in time.
"I would say that you need to go but that isn't what you deserve" Spitted the blonde sheriff at Hook. "And you are going to pay for this, but now that I know that Regina is alive I'm going to bring her back" And with that the woman turned, leaving everybody in the dinner speechless. Henry didn't say a word as he followed his blonde mother outside the dinner.
David handcuffed the pirate and he didn't hold his smug smirk as Hook glared at him.
"I told you, Hook, you weren't good"
Hook laughed brokenly at that, his parted lips making visible the blood that covered them, Emma's punch far stronger than what it had appeared at first.
"And Regina is?"
Snow, who had been silent until now, nodded earnestly.
"She has changed"
Hook didn't say a word about that but as David drag him out he laughed and spitted, the sudden silence inside the dinner the last thing that David could sense.